An effects chain including distortion, flanger, delay and limiter are included. Additionally, a separate identical effects chain is provided to process an external signal connected to the iPad’s audio input.

A Buchla with 40 year old methodology vs. a new creative revolution in music making. Which one would you choose? Didn't Buchla pioneer the musical touch interfaces anyway? So where's the Buchla App for the iPad? Oh Yeah, Buchla charges $1000 for a single oscillator!

love it! Was playing with this all morning… tons of great presets and lots of control. The fugly interface is sort of charming after a while, and I really like the waveforms as touch indicators.

would like to see an option to keep the touches snapped to a note in the XY grid until you release — sometimes you do want to slide up to a nearby note but I was finding that much more often I wanted to slide up and down in Y to modulate it but it's really easy to slip left/right to a nearby note, especially with chords.

Also would like an option to lock the scale when changing presets. I do very much like that the presets come with good choices for scales but if I am playing with a backing track it's annoying to switch back every time.

Latency is minimal. I can't detect any when playing the touch screen… That said, I am the author of SynthX, so I am a little biased. It might be possible to get your iPad running a bunch of other apps in the background sucking up the CPU, which might cause some latency, but I would consider that user error…

My testing has shown that when using a USB MIDI adapter like the iConnectMIDI or an M-Audio UNO connected using the Camera Connection Kit, that latency is so low that it is very hard for me to measure.

This is a great synth! So many things I dig about it… sounds great, big range of tones, multiple play interfaces, all of which are musically expressive, and much more. Excellent job of forging ahead while including some other nice touch screen features as well.